SearchWiki: make search your own — Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it.

Google SearchWiki brings custom search results — Disagree with Google's search results? You'll be able to do something about it with a change the company plans to release starting Thursday. — Google's SearchWiki is a feature that lets people elevate, delete, add, and annotate search results.

19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv — In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was apparently egged …

A Historic Collapse in U.S. Corporate IT Spending — ChangeWave's latest corporate IT purchasing survey shows an accelerating collapse in U.S. business spending that has reached historic proportions - with record pullbacks occurring both in the current 4th Quarter and going forward.

We're Doomed ... What an abundance of ugly statistics we've seen this past week. An increase in tech sector layoffs and people talking about them. A decrease in chip sales. A decrease in online spending. And now a decrease in corporate IT spending as well.

Apple releases iPhone 2.2 update, it's a big one — Apple releases the iPhone 2.2 update. It's a big one — The signs were all pointing to a tomorrow launch of the 2.2 software update for the iPhone — Apple jumped the gun. (Though I guess technically it is November 21st on the east coast of the U.S.) …

PE Obama's Phone Records Breached By Verizon Employees — Verizon Wireless today admitted that some of its employees had been looking into President-elect Barack Obama's cell phone billing records. In a release, the company said: … This is a good enough reason for all of us to question …

Why Firefox Won't Survive Chrome — [Editor's Note: In a departure from form, I will mostly blog shorter posts today so that I can post more to Apple Watch and Microsoft Watch. It's a stylistic experiment; please offer feedback in comments or by e-mail.] — GOT A TIP OR RUMOR?

The Faces of Mechanical Turk — When you experiment with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, it feels like magic. You toss 500 questions into the ether, and the answers instantly start rolling in from anonymous workers around the world. It was great for getting work done, but who are these people?

Apple shares lose ‘iPhone premium’ — Stock back to levels before blockbuster device was unveiled — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — For nearly two years, since the introduction of the iPhone at the 2007 Macworld show, Apple Inc.'s stock had been on a tear that was impressive even for a company …

YouTube Tests Out High Quality, Stereo Surround Videos — YouTube has quietly started testing out real HD quality videos on a smattering of its content, a development that is getting attention from viewers in message boards and blog forums this week. The new format could be a big move for YouTube …

America's Best Leaders — Home > Nation & World > America's Best Leaders — America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO — The founder of the massive online retailer is a true Internet pioneer … My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share — While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.

Apple developing always-on iPhone status indicators — Apple has conceptualized a means of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhone's displays even when the handset is locked and the backlight turned off, a new company filing shows. — The Cupertino-based electronics maker notes …

For Sony, No Discounts Means Stress-Free Shopping — Eliminating price competition among retailers for high-end cameras and TVs is a great benefit for consumers — or so Sony executives argued Thursday. — At a chat with reporters in New York, Stan Glasgow, the president of Sony Electronics …

Parody Is Still Fair Use Last We Checked — from the but-it-won't-stop-the-lawsuits dept — The EFF is representing a NYC activist who is protesting redevelopment efforts for New York City's Union Square. The woman, Savitri Durkee, set up a website parodying the website of Union Square Partnership …

Yahoo open pages continue to dribble out — Yahoo is continuing to dribble out its open platform. — The company on Thursday added an eBay Anywhere application to the dashboard area of the new home page in testing. The eBay application allows users to monitor their buying and selling activities from the Yahoo home page.